Kenny Beats - I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come

I always had this ego where if I ever wanted to come back to doing rap, I could do that. That was not true. I would get stuck, I would be in a room and someone would ask me for something and I didn't have it.

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Pierre, Alphonse. "Kenny Beats Is the Rap Producer of the Moment." Pitchfork, Conde Nast, 12 Dec. 2018.

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